A Pumpkin, the Professor and a Mailbox

This post has been a long time coming, I'll explain why with the mailbox. As Halloween approached JC was very excited to carve a pumpkin, he said it was the first one he did all by himself without any help. This may be true, but next year we are going to let him clean out the pumpkin too, as we think that is truly the hard part. The roasted pumpkin seeds were good!



So a few months back, our mailbox got smashed along with several of our neighbors. We clearly had to replace the mailbox. So we decided to have some fun with it. JC and I worked on designs and got most of the box done. After several months of it sitting in the basement and with the weather starting to be wetter, we needed to do the final detailing and put the mailbox up. It looked really cute. I was hesitant to put the mailbox up on Halloween night, but I wanted the project done! I was relieved when the mailbox was still intact the next morning. I took pictures and was going to put post them along with JC's Halloween stuff. But the next morning our mailbox was lying on the ground with the post broken. It was not a good morning! Dad fixed the post and the damage to the sunflower mailbox was minimal, so we put it back out. So far it has been 2 1/2 weeks and no one had smashed it. We are hopeful.